Tag: Greek

Orthodox Greeks worship skulls and bones in the Holy Land

This collection of Greek ikons, skull and bones can be found in a monastery near Jericho in Israel.

An Orthodox mix of bones, skulls and religious ikons are found in a monastary near Jericho.

The story abort Saint Gerasimos of Deir Hajla monastery near Jericho in Israel is interesting beyond the skull and the bones.Gerasimos of the Jordan was a monk who attended the  Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451 AD. So inside the skull there must have been a good brain.

But the most amazing side of this monk’s life, is his teaming of a lion. Lets read from an Orthodox website:

 One day while walking along the Jordan, Gerasimos came upon a lion roaring in agony because of a large splinter imbedded in one paw. Overcome with compassion for the suffering beast, Gerasimos removed the splinter, drained and cleaned the wound, then bound it up, expecting the lion would return to its cave.

Instead the creature meekly followed him back to the monastery and became the abbot’s devoted pet. The whole community was amazed at the lion’s apparent conversion to a peaceful life – he lived now on bread and vegetables – and its devotion to the abbot.

Lets take a look on more photos from this “Holy place”.

The official explaination is that monks collected skulls and bones of their fellow munks.
The skull in the box is venterated and adored by Greek Orthodox munks inside Israel.
The skull has the central place at this site of worship.
The saint and the lion. Look at the skull on the cloak of the man.
The skull and bones on the cloak of this saint look like a piracy sign.
The bone collecting monks have been bussy.

Source of the story

Source of pictures

My comment:

A conversion of a lion, who looked after donkey’s and camels is sure extraordinary stuff.

Let us therefore leave the mix of religious ikons and bones on this site for a seond, and take a look at the lion.

The informant site of this “saint”, says the story has a “ring of truth”.

We must acknowledge that lions needs a lot of food.

Could it be that these monks were not killed by angry Persians?

But rather were eaten by a hungry lion?

Poor monks living in a desert like environment, might have found it difficult to feed them selves. How to feed a lion kept as a pet?

We know that lions do not eat the bones of their victims.

Just something Catholics and the Orthodox should reflect on, as they venerate these bones.

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The head who gives Greek Orthodox more water

“When the priests process with the holy relics around the monastery grounds, the water level in the well rises”.

The head of a greek "saint" kept in a box and paraded through the streets.

This is written on a Greek Orthodox website. Here is the full story:

 One day St. Gerasimos set about digging a well near his monastery in Kefallonia. Standing at the bottom of the well he scooped up the damp earth, and the nuns hauled it to the surface. As they worked, a local villager passed by and said, “Look at this immoral monk with all his nuns.” The Saint, who could not have possibly heard the distant man’s words, climbed out of the well, and called for the villager to come to him. He wrote a short message on a piece of paper, folded it up and told him to take it to the judge. The note said, “Arrest him because he has falsely accused me.” The judge interrogated the man, who confessed his slanderous words and begged for mercy, not knowing that St. Gerasimos had also written, “…but set him free after you question him.”

The well still exists, and local Christians say that on the feastday of the Saint, when the priests process with the holy relics around the monastery grounds, the water level in the well rises as the relics approach it and recedes as the procession moves away.

 Source: John Sanidoppoulos.com

My comment:

Lets take a look at some more pictures:

The head of the corpse is paraded through a street in Greece.
It is not explained why some Greek Orthodox lie on the street in front of the skull.

In my opinion, the cut of head does not seems to find particular pleasures from within the box.

If the water in the well is rising during the religious march around the well, it might be another flood that might come to put God’s wrath on the wicked.

It is therefor understandable that the water do recede after the feast. Since God promised Noah to never kill the whole mankind again by flooding them.

A religious man in Greece kiss the feet of the skeleton.
The head of the saint has deterorated. The nose is gone on this picture from a You-tube video

But the gate of Hell is wide open for all who feel its pleasing to God to keep a cut of head in a box, and march it around on a Greek island.

Even kissing the corpse. What about bowing down and kissing the toe bone?

A religious man put his head inside the box, to kiss the "crosses on the chest of the saint.

Surely a grotesque expression of “faith”, and the absolute nadir of religious perversions in the name of “Ieso Cristo”, a Helenistic copycat.

You can watch the corpse and the march looking at this video:

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Greek to go bankrupt because of the Greeks

The Greek people have lost confidence in their own banks. Last year they withdrew 30 billion Euros.  

Greeks attacking their police with molotov coctails, will not rescue their banking system.

Greek savers withdrew 30 billion Euro from their banks last year and continue to do so at a monthly rate of Euro 1.5 billion to Euro 2 billion every month this year.

The EU withdrawing its financial support would almost certainly trigger a bigger run on Greek banks.
 
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) said last week that it was concerned about the indirect exposure of Switzerland’s two big banks – UBS and Credit Suisse – to the ripple effects of a Greek default.

While Switzerland has modest direct exposure to Greece, the prospect of a complete economic collapse of the troubled country is enough to worry some observers.

Greece would then struggle to remain solvent as it needs to find €12 billion by mid-July to clear short-term debts.

Source: Swissinto.ch

My comment:

Greek should not have joined the EU in the first place.

It is amazing that the Greeks now expect foreigners to rescue their banks, when they them selves have lost all confidence in them.

The best way to make the Greek understand this issue, is to let their banks go bankrupt. When the Greeks are out of the Euro Zone, they will face a 50 per cent devaluation of their old currency Drakmer, and 15-20 per cent annual inflation.

Proverbs 10:4
Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

When their own economy has collapsed, first than they will realize that they have to work. Social benefits that is not a product of their own work, is alway a fruit of borrowing. This Greek tragedy will end like a Greek tragedy. With sweat, blood and tears.

Only out of chaos, comes the demand form for a One World Government and a stable One World currency.

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